Data & Analytics Delivery Leader — Hi-Tech

Persistent Systems; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Persistent Systems is seeking a Delivery Head to lead data engineering delivery across a portfolio of Hi-Tech customers in the Bay Area or Dallas. This senior, client-facing leadership role owns end-to-end delivery, governance, revenue, and long-term client relationships.

You will scale delivery teams, codify engineering best practices, and drive measurable outcomes using modern data platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake.

Qualifications

• 12–15 years of IT experience with a strong foundation in data engineering, data warehousing, or data platform development.
• 4+ years in a delivery, program, or engagement leadership role owning multiple concurrent projects or a portfolio.
• Demonstrated P&L or financial ownership—managing revenue, margin, forecasting, and staffing.
• Experience managing distributed onshore/offshore delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery across a portfolio of data engineering engagements, ensuring on-time, on-budget, high-quality outcomes against SLAs and OKRs.
• Establish delivery governance—cadences, dashboards, risk/issue management, and escalation paths across programs and distributed teams.
• Drive engineering excellence in data platform modernization, pipeline development, data quality, and DataOps across cloud environments.
• Serve as the senior delivery point of contact for Hi-Tech clients, building trust with stakeholders up to CXO level.
• Partner with sales and account teams to grow existing accounts—identifying opportunities, shaping solutions, and supporting proposals and SOWs.
• Translate client business challenges into data engineering roadmaps delivering time-to-insight and cost optimization.

Skills

Delivery leadership

P&L ownership

Data engineering

Cloud data platforms

Stakeholder management

Executive presence

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science/Engineering/IT

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Spark

Airflow

dbt

Kafka

Job description

Persistent Systems is seeking a Delivery Head to lead data engineering delivery across a portfolio of Hi-Tech customers in the Bay Area or Dallas. This senior, client-facing leadership role owns end-to-end delivery, governance, revenue, and long-term client relationships.

You will scale delivery teams, codify engineering best practices, and drive measurable outcomes using modern data platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake.